Apple lle and BASIC

["Bettablue" <bettablue@hotmail.com>]

Thanks everyone.   I'm sure the information you gave me so far is 
invaluable.  I can't wait for my best friend to move back to Vegas so we can 
sit and play with my vintage computers like we did as teenagers.  It was a 
great bonding experience for us wannabe nerds.

I have the computer in my den right now.  It's a thing of beauty!  Over 
engineering was art form back then and the ability to add a specific card to 
these computers makes add-ons so simple.  As far as installed cards, all it 
contains now is the memory module, floppy and video controller cards.  I 
heard something to the effect that Apple lle's had a color adapter already 
built in, but the monitor that shipped is only a monochrome.  If this is 
true, I would love to get an original color display for it.  I know all I 
have to to find out, is connect it to a TV set , but that isn't the easiest 
thing for me to do.  I only have one good arm and the other I need to 
control my power wheelchair.  It's funny that the display went out the 
moment we started writing some small test code.  There was no smoke, or any 
indication that there was anything going wrong.  It was working fine one 
second, and the next, it went blank.  The display had no power at all.  I 
suspect an internal fuse.

I'm going to try to open the monitor to check the fuse.  If that's not the 
cause of the problem I will be in the market for someone to either repair or 
replace my current one.  If the lle does have a color video controller, I'll 
definitely want a color display.

I have another question though.  Is Apple BASIC compatible with programs 
written with another version of BASIC?  IE, can I write a program on a PC of 
the same era and use on my lle?  There are a lot of programs I have in Apple 
BASIC that I want to run on my IBM 5150 too.